Good Morning, and welcome to the 224th Festival of Frugality. I’m happy to take part in and host such a fantastic weekly institution in the Personal Finance Blogosphere. For those of you not familiar with the Festival-each week a different blogger takes a turn hosting an online “carnival” of frugality related links. It’s a great… Keep Reading
Search Results for: Make Do and Mend
From the Vault
This post was supposed to go up on Saturday, but you know how things go! So I thought I’d do a little mid-week vault entry with y’all. 2006 Apparently I was very busy thinking about chicken that week. I had made a 20-lb purchase of chicken thigh quarters that I was prepare for the freezer…. Keep Reading
What’s on the Radar
Just thought I’d share some of the articles and posts (of all kinds) that caught my attention this week. Drew over at Cook Like Your Grandmother has an older post that I stumbled on about how to render and store bacon fat. For some reason I’ve used quite a bit of bacon lately, and I… Keep Reading
The Great Oatmeal Experiment-Results!
So, a while back I posted my Overnight Crockpot Oatmeal recipe. To my embarrassment a bunch of readers had absolutely horrible results. Oops. So I decided to figure out what was going on. I enlisted the help of some erstwhile volunteers-Daniel, Candi and Allison*. We all started out with the original recipe: 1 cup steel… Keep Reading
Reader’s Letter: Making Your Dryer Last
I got this email from Drew-a fellow blogger (and author!) over at “How to Cook Like Your Grandmother“. Dear Frugal Upstate, Got this in an email forwarded from my mother today. Thought you’d like it. ===================== “The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told… Keep Reading
29 Free Printable 2010 Calendars
I hate spending money I don’t have to, and I just love getting something for nothing. . . so when it came time to replace my 2009 calendar with a fresh new 2010 one, the first thing I did was hit the search engines. There I found a TON of fantastic free printable calendars out… Keep Reading
Well. . . This is Embarassing.
For the first time in 4 years I printed a recipe that worked for me but flopped for a bunch of you. Yes, a few weeks ago I published my “Overnight Crockpot Oatmeal” recipe-a recipe that I have made myself both recently and in the past with excellent results. Some of you didn’t have the… Keep Reading
Reader’s Question: How long are Leftovers Good for?
Hi Jenn, Just wondering what your philosophy is on how long leftovers, etc. are still good for. I notice you talk frequently about something defrosted in your fridge or, as in this post leftovers from Christmas, that you need to use up. I’m all about the frugal and hate to see food wasted, but I’m… Keep Reading
Adventures in Pressure Canning: The Venison Experiment
Whenever I preserve my own food I admit to having a nostalgic “Little House on the Prairie” moment. For some reason canning appeals to me on some deep, visceral level. It’s a bit of that whole DIY ethos-I’m using my own two hands to create something I can see and feel and taste. It’s a… Keep Reading
Review & Giveaway: $3 Meals by Ellen Brown
GIVEAWAY CLOSED How could any frugalista worth her salt resist a book with a title like “$3 Meals~Feed Your Family Delicious, Healthy Meals for Less Than the Cost of a Gallon of Milk”? Here is a little disclaimer. Since these brand spankin new cookbooks only arrived on my doorstep a few days ago, I have… Keep Reading
